Grounded Systems
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@grndd_systems
we turn deep protocol experience into user-facing products – experimenting with incentives, cryptography and evolving the protocols themselves | watch us
2015 - 2017 you could mine any new PoW / Masternode coin and would make money. 2021 you could farm any DeFi protocol and would make money. Very (3,3). Even investing in scams made money if you exited before the bear market. Now you’re getting farmed on new launches left and right. Extractoors took over & trenches are cooked. Whoever solves this will win big.
Crypto is a area I had never be able to understand. I still don’t see a single use case yet on how crypto is helping anything in the last 15 years.
"What if crypto actually made sense to a regular web user?" Enter unstoppable web gadgets - the crypto augmentation for traditional web, bridging the gap between normies and crypto. Grounded Systems is bringing these gadgets to life with @celestia underneath▶️🧵
I'm happy to share that we've started Grounded Systems (@grndd_systems) - our studio for brave crypto application experiments with @celestia underneath. Go directly to the quote-tweeted thread and discover what is being built, our team, vision, and looming experiments. If you'd like to learn more about my journey to get here, please continue reading. Since before I joined Celestia in 2021, I've seen blockchains as a technology that can change the world for better. I know that sounds extremely cliche but that's how naive I was :) However, the problem back then was clear that technology itself was not ready for mass scale, so I got captivated by solving the infrastructure and getting into promising L1 early. Fast forward to 2025, after years in trenches building Celestia and studying mammoths, I have a firm conviction that low-latency abundant blockspace is the solution and almost the end game. And thence Grounded Systems was born which is my little lab for experimenting with radical product ideas, utilizing all that blockspace with some novel crypto primitives to eventually find a product that would fulfill my inner ambition. Don't get me wrong, tho, I am not leaving the protocol!!! I see the Berlin Wall between core and application developers in other major L1s, and, as a founding coredev I don't want to repeat this part of history for Celestia. I believe coredevs are privileged and somewhat obligated to fill the gap between core and app development, serving as a role model for how to build native apps. Celestia's case is especially problematic, considering the endless options it provides with its full-stack control. That's basically it. Thanks for reading. If you also see blockchains more then they are currently, closely watch @grndd_systems for ideas being cooked.
